Knowledge Commons | Music and Sound | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/music/ Activity feed for the group, Music and Sound. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:14:34 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 80fb5ce0a0c19bae826157dc8a99fabd Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Music https://hcommons.org/groups/music/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-16/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:48:37 -0500 Dear All,

 

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

 

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

]]> e66c645b49b99ca26a968b8b3eea4b5d Joel Edelman deposited On the Origin of Music; A Convergence of Theories in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899092/ Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:00:53 -0400 Much of today's research into the nature of musical pleasure can be divided into two distinct areas - the study of the overtone spectra of musical consonance and the study of human physiological responses to musical sounds. The former is largely focused on adult participatory responses and the latter on the detection of biochemical activity.…[Read more]

]]> 0 cccb65ee978b8dc40aa6313c76b0ec3a Joel Edelman deposited On the Origin of Music; A Mathematician's Perspective in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896377/ Fri, 16 Aug 2024 03:01:03 -0400 Recent studies of consonance combined with related neurological studies of musical pleasure both point to the prenatal exposure to the human voice as the origin of our affinity for harmonics sounds. The response of a neonate to the maternal voice is compared to the adult response to music, and the physical components of tonal sounds provide an…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3b66849dde3b35c4b74490db101001b Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic atmospheres in Mauritian devotional Islam: Sensing transoceanic connections in a Creole society in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884700/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:31:54 -0400 Movement constitutes transoceanic spaces such as the Indian Ocean world. Sonic practices as atmospheres make such multilayered movements and connections palpable. The recitation of naʻt among Mauritian Muslims is an example of how sound and sonic practices can provide somatic evidence for transoceanic links in the Indian Ocean world. It is argued…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd7198dab9e3df44922471ef354e76a9 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Atmospheres: The multisensoriality of spatially extended emotions in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884697/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:31:39 -0400 In this essay, I introduce an analytic of atmosphere as a way to bridge the gap between the phenomenology of the felt-body and the anthropology of the senses. This analytic of atmospheres as multisensoriality partially aligns with, but also differs from other anthropological approaches to multisensoriality or the anthropology of the senses.…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd86ffaca9f3dd047290d7b65ff6f028 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sound, Voice, and the Felt Body in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884661/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:14 -0400 As the meeting ground of language, the body, and subjectivity, voice has become a key con- cept in the humanities and social sciences. Nevertheless, analyses of the voice that do justice to all these three dimensions are rare. This also applies to linguistic anthropological work on the voice, whose main strength is investigating the interplay of…[Read more]

]]> 0 116ff10cd548994627fd53817cbe8df2 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic religion: The analysis of atmospheric half-things in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884658/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:27:54 -0400 The chapter discusses work on sonic religion and the challenges it has encountered in coming to terms with sonic materiality. The study of material religion has so far been predominantly focused on objects, things, and images. The sonic, however, cannot be grasped by approaches suited to the latter phenomena. It is argued that its special kind of…[Read more]

]]> 0 3bfb2f941f3b6dffd31463153e1b783a Claus Tieber deposited Screenwriting sound and music: Towards a new field of study in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882924/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:01:58 -0400 Extensive research in film and media studies on film music and sound has delved into various aspects of their role in cinema, recognizing their significance. However, a crucial element in film production – the screenplay – has often been overlooked in the exploration of sound and music integration. Concurrently, studies on screenwriting have dis…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc314049bc8d0b62b1b2a731882e91bf Paulino Capdepon deposited CONMEMORACIONES DEL PRIMER CENTENARIO DE LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN EN MADRID (1927): LA ACTIVIDAD ORQUESTAL in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875795/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:02:41 -0500 In 1927, Madrid experienced a great musical activity to celebrate the first anniversary of Beethoven's death. This chapter focuses on the activities organized by orchestras, societies, associations, etc., and their reflection in the press of that time. Critics from the main Madrid newspapers such as Adolfo Salazar, Juan José Mantecón, Víctor Es…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c8203a222ffd963d0abeb97edb6ef81 Paulino Capdepon deposited EL ESTRENO DE LA NOVENA SINFONÍA EN RE MENOR OPUS 125 DE BEETHOVEN EN ESPAÑA (1882): HISTORIA Y RECEPCIÓN in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875791/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:01:37 -0500 The premiere in 1882 of the Ninth Symphony by the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) at the Teatro Principal in Madrid marked a significant historical and musical milestone for the history of Spanish symphonic music. Until then, the reception of the great German composer in Spain had been limited since the 1840s to individual…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c8c657a39d703b753c1ae2849503746 Eric Dienstfrey deposited "Introduction" from Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863577/ Sat, 04 Nov 2023 03:00:13 -0400 Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit reveals that, in fact, filmmakers have been creating stereo and surround-sound effects for nearly a century, since the advent of talking pictures, and argues that their endurance owes primarily to…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9358875e80710245073548c4944439b Cristian Martinez Vega created the doc Database Report 2022 - International Society for Chilean Music (SIMUC) in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862284/ Sat, 21 Oct 2023 03:55:20 -0400 c0edb8d487b1b857c8d1a016c7d9907c Bernd Brabec deposited Auditive Wissenskulturen: Wissen, Macht und die Welt der Klänge in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856724/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:11:41 -0400 In der Einleitung zum Sammelband Auditive Wissenskulturen – Das Wissen klanglicher Praxis stellen die Autoren zuerst die Diskrepanzen der jeweiligen Beziehungen des Visuellen und des Auditiven zu Wissen anhand einiger Beispiele vor. Sie exemplifzieren auch, wie sowohl auditive Praxis als auch die Hervorbringung und Vermittlung von Wissen in s…[Read more]

]]> 0 44ed83c7c25f374a237bc134b88ba0e8 Eric Dienstfrey deposited Synch Holes and Patchwork in Early Feature-Film Scores in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852310/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:25:10 -0400 The aesthetics of early feature-film scores were shaped by narrational problems introduced by multi-reel features and their longer durations. Using The Patchwork Girl of Oz, I show how stylistic devices like silences and musical pun- ctuation were used to address the coherence and pacing of multi-reel storytelling.

]]> 0 f1463f2949ddd5c12d0ec8a428d29b0f Eric Dienstfrey deposited Tape Recording Hollywood: The Inaudibility of New Film Sound Technology in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852307/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:24:57 -0400 This article details the historical factors that shaped Hollywood’s adoption of magnetic recording during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It draws upon economic theories of technological change, archival correspondence, technical records, analyses of postproduction workflows, and delineations of the structural constraints that limited how the f…[Read more]

]]> 0 915f3633dbc3d07b8a40b0f50f0abd26 Eric Dienstfrey deposited Monocentrism, or Soundtracks in Space in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852304/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:24:42 -0400 This chapter investigates how the introduction of stereo complicated Hollywood’s vococentric practices. It also reveals how sound technicians developed mixing techniques that preserved the salience of dialogue in multi-channel soundscapes. The author refers to such techniques as monocentrism and illustrates monocentric norms by analyzing the c…[Read more]

]]> 0 8aab43c04ad59e42c274bb0993ec8ff5 Joel Edelman deposited A Coherent Model of Musical Consonance in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852217/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:24:45 -0400 Without fail a study in any depth of our fondness for music must eventually address the issue of consonance and dissonance. Past approaches to this issue have been bounded by a limited knowledge base and, further, marred by logical flaws, occasional hand waving, and the myopia of reductionism. Despite the explosion of progress in the last few…[Read more]

]]> 0 eaec9d0d9e5e74ff697a28daa4884424 Adrian Curtin started the topic CfP for online symposium: The Experimental Orchestra (December 13, 2023) in the discussion Music https://hcommons.org/groups/music/forum/topic/cfp-for-online-symposium-the-experimental-orchestra-december-13-2023/ Tue, 18 Jul 2023 12:22:31 -0400 Event date: December 13, 2023

Submission deadline: September 1, 2023

Orchestras around the world are conducting experiments related to performance, to the constitution of the orchestra, and to its operation. Professional classical music ensembles, like many other organisations and institutions in the cultural sector, face an existential…[Read more]

]]> c34146f5b33c25d77f5250a8d936f059 Joel Edelman deposited Clarifying Musical Consonance in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850890/ Sun, 02 Jul 2023 02:24:39 -0400 Without fail a study in any depth of our fondness for music must eventually address the issue of consonance and dissonance. Past approaches to this issue have been bounded by a limited knowledge base and, further, marred by logical flaws, occasional hand waving, and the myopia of reductionism. Despite the explosion of progress in the last few…[Read more]

]]> 0 d4dd346b4d67366706c8069ca38ce411 Eric Sirota started the topic New Movie: Frankenstein (musical) based on Mary Shelley's novel in the discussion Music https://hcommons.org/groups/music/forum/topic/new-movie-frankenstein-musical-based-on-mary-shelleys-novel-3/ Sat, 27 May 2023 04:49:40 -0400 I'm excited to tell you that my musical, "Frankenstein" that played Off-Broadway in NY for 3 years, was adapted for screen, with an expanded score and orchestration.  It was just released this week and is available on StreamingMusicals.com  or from the website https://TheFrankensteinMusical.com

]]> fca73e1b06cb814162ef807ff501f2b6 Eric Dienstfrey deposited The Myth of the Speakers: A Critical Reexamination of Dolby History in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839775/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:26:06 -0400 This article corrects misconceptions regarding the history of film stereo. I show that the technical and aesthetic innovations regularly credited to Dolby Stereo, to sound designers like Walter Murch, and to films like Apocalypse Now (1979) were not revolutions but extensions of surround-sound practices that Hollywood codified in prior decades. I…[Read more]

]]> 0 f44c2b608692388f0e3c01e27c453e39 Eric Dienstfrey deposited Under the Standard: MGM, AT&T, and the Academy's Regulation of Power in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839772/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:25:51 -0400 In the 1930s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences implemented a technical standard—known as Academy Mono, or the Academy Curve—that dramatically impaired the sound quality of motion pictures. This article accounts for why the major studios agreed to this restrictive standard. I argue that they adopted Academy Mono to curtail the pow…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0653b8f12b8c54e8d05db4080f13074 Eric Dienstfrey deposited The Myth of the Speakers: A Critical Reexamination of Dolby History in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839763/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:25:12 -0400 This article corrects misconceptions regarding the history of film stereo. I show that the technical and aesthetic innovations regularly credited to Dolby Stereo, to sound designers like Walter Murch, and to films like Apocalypse Now (1979) were not revolutions but extensions of surround-sound practices that Hollywood codified in prior decades. I…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff7b2936300327290dd11d1233a01697 Eric Dienstfrey deposited Under the Standard: MGM, AT&T, and the Academy's Regulation of Power in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839759/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:24:54 -0400 In the 1930s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences implemented a technical standard—known as Academy Mono, or the Academy Curve—that dramatically impaired the sound quality of motion pictures. This article accounts for why the major studios agreed to this restrictive standard. I argue that they adopted Academy Mono to curtail the pow…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd7511bc1d5ad1da3639445d1085c567 Paulino Capdepon deposited La capilla musical de la colegiata de Talavera de la Reina en la primera mitad del siglo XIX in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836479/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 02:28:11 -0500 After the period of splendour experienced by the musical chapel of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina during the 18th century, we witnessed a period of decline, which was part of the crisis experienced by Spanish religious music during the 19th century. The effects of the War of Independence, the successive…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb60be60ed031d7ebe9bdb974cabec3f Paulino Capdepon deposited La transición al siglo XIX en la Catedral de Jaén: el maestro de capilla Ramón Garay (1761-1823) [The transition to the 19th century in Jaén Cathedral: the maestro de capilla Ramón Garay (1761-1823)] in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836394/ Sun, 05 Mar 2023 02:27:12 -0500 This article focuses on the personal and artistic career of one of the most representative composers of Spain in the second half of the 18th century and the first third of the 19th century. Ramón Garay, born in 1761 in Asturias, held the post of Chapel Master of Jaén Cathedral for 36 fruitful years, which saw the birth of an extraordinary p…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb2069204c823694f736639615fcf482 Bernd Brabec deposited Academic (In)Discipline, Research (In)Sanity and the Conundrum of (Indigenous) Timescapes in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836014/ Fri, 03 Mar 2023 02:24:42 -0500 This contribution focuses on strategies to bridge what in anthropology is called ontological incommensurability: Indigenous worlds often seem inaccessible to modern thought. Instead of trying to open Indigenous worlds to Westerners, I rather intend to make Western worlds accessible to Indigenous thought; and likewise, academic disciplines…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c0d145c95f19ef3eb0348ecefd89135 Paulino Capdepon deposited El “Año Beethoven” (1927): la Orquesta Filarmónica de Madrid y Bartolomé Pérez Casas [The Beethoven Year (1927): The Madrid Philarmonic Orchestra and Bartolomé Pérez Casas] in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834447/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 02:28:04 -0500 The celebration of the "Beethoven Year" in Madrid in 1927 resulted in a whole series of celebrations of all kinds that extended throughout that emblematic year to honour the German composer. This resulted in the public performance of numerous concerts by Madrid's leading orchestral and choral groups, including the Orquesta Filarmónica de Madrid,…[Read more]

]]> 0 c105a98ee3f016a98fad66cd0dbb7372 Paulino Capdepon deposited Historia de la música y Edad Moderna: estado de la cuestión [Music History and Modern Age: State of the art] in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834441/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 02:26:55 -0500 This article focuses on the study of the different musical periods that make up the Modern Age in Europe, taking into account from a critical point of view the current state of the art in bibliography. Each period is previously defined according to the chronological problem and according to its technical, aesthetic and stylistic characteristics.

]]> 0 f55879fe647338c0082ec09791873c9a Paulino Capdepon deposited Domenico Scarlatti, in Diccionario Biográfico Electrónico in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834310/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:33:20 -0500 Article about the biography and musical output of the Italian composer Doomenico Scarlatti

]]> 0 f3079779825d067d1c5ba3daf0e869af Paulino Capdepon deposited La música en la Real Capilla de Madrid (Siglo XVIII) in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834299/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:31:00 -0500 The importance of this publication lies in the recovery and study of a musical heritage of extraordinary quality: unpublished musical works by the masters of the Royal Chapel of Madrid, the most important centre in Spain at the time, which until now had slept the sleep of oblivion. In addition to the musical transcriptions, this contribution is…[Read more]

]]> 0 30556fbceb41227bb26c54181a563e5d Paulino Capdepon deposited Articles ‘Carreño, Teresa’, ‘Colbrán, Isabella’ y ‘Viardot Garcia, Pauline’, in Lexikon Musik und Gender in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834105/ Mon, 13 Feb 2023 02:29:27 -0500 Dictionary articles in Lexicon about women musicians

]]> 0 0fcac7a6924e0aa1bbf7dfcc7acc81f1 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Atmospheric resonance: Sonic motion and the question of religious mediation in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834093/ Mon, 13 Feb 2023 02:26:46 -0500 Because of its material characteristics, the sonic poses a challenge to the influential paradigm of religion as mediation. This article makes a case for a neo-phenomenological analytic of atmospheres in order to do justice to the sonic in anthropological approaches to religion. Approaching the sonic as atmospheric half-things, I propose a…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b8562caf004602edcdee39a5408ee0e Paulino Capdepon deposited L’activité d’Aristide Cavaillé-Coll dans le nord d’Espagne : L’orgue Cavaillé-Coll de l’église paroissiale d’Irun in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833954/ Sun, 12 Feb 2023 02:28:02 -0500 Study about the construction of organs in North Spain by Cavaillé-Coll (19th century)

]]> 0 82ec92a2b19f0c04466a91bb0650494a Joel Edelman deposited Seven Sisters; The Contribution of Timbre in Resolving Inconsistencies and Filling Voids in the Attribution of Consonance to Tonal Structures. in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1832898/ Mon, 06 Feb 2023 02:24:38 -0500 Abstract submitted to Timbre 2023 conference. This abstract describes a new approach to understanding consonance and dissonance.

]]> 0 6aacae2bc1b5fa43b1ca279fc9e6f3a5 Melle Jan Kromhout deposited 'Antennas Have Long Since Invaded Our Brains.’ Listening to the ‘Other Music’ in Friedrich Kittler. in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1822656/ Thu, 17 Nov 2022 02:24:10 -0500 This chapter examines the revolutin in media within music based on Friedrich Kittler's work. It highlights Kittler's musical preferences, from Richard Wagner to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd. For Kittler this music exemplified an “other music” that was based on a cutout from the totality of “worldwide noise” as it was theorized after Arthur Schopen…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d0864ab3e711ad5d6d700bc531aedcd Joel Edelman deposited Voice Based Affinity; A Recipe for Auditory Cheesecake in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818819/ Thu, 27 Oct 2022 02:25:21 -0400 The age-old search for an understanding of "consonance" has been hobbled from the beginning by the expectation that a silver bullet can be found. In this section from a book-in-progress, the historical searches are analyzed for their failings and a new approach is suggested based on observing the effects of tonal sounds within the context of…[Read more]

]]> 0 523007f47fc4500539eb648699db3bd9 Tekla Babyak deposited Teaching Music and Disability Through Disclosure-Oriented Pedagogy in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793077/ Wed, 07 Sep 2022 02:24:31 -0400 In this paper, presented at the 2022 H-Net Teaching Conference, I describe how I teach undergraduate students about disability in music through what I call disclosure-oriented pedagogy. This practice involves demonstrating cross-historical comparisons between my lived experiences of disability and the representations of disability in 19th-century…[Read more]

]]> 0 478d309c4cc5faf291e48c8e4a94258f Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Atmospheric citizenship: Sonic movement and public religion in Shi‘i Mumbai in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1776435/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 02:25:22 -0400 In Mumbai the sonic dimensions of place‐making and religious life are deeply connected to the right to the city. For Twelver Shi‘i Muslims, who are marginal to both the city and the nation, public religious rituals and processions have long played very important roles in staging claims to the city. Investigating the sonic aspects of urban pla…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc267a0a2e0e0057e998f3f1948907e9 Larisa Mann deposited Booming at the Margins: Ethnic Radio, Intimacy, and Nonlinear Innovation in Media in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1757064/ Fri, 29 Oct 2021 02:24:22 -0400 Pirate radio still flourishes in dense, multiethnic cities such as Brooklyn, New York, despite the rise of Web radio. For immigrants in particular, radio sounds mark identity and community and (re)claim social spaces of work, commutes, and the home. It is not only lack of access to digital technologies or broadband that shapes radio’s relevance, b…[Read more]

]]> 0 e59fc0e062a904b218275b110ab65ee3 Larisa Mann deposited White Faces in Intimate Spaces: Jamaican Popular Music in Global Circulation in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1757061/ Fri, 29 Oct 2021 02:24:11 -0400 This study explores Jamaican popular music's changing engagement with globally networked media technologies. It combines ethnographic analysis of the street dance as a site of urban poor and Black resistance to colonial institutions with an analysis of song lyrics about video cameras at street dances. Newly networked technologies for circulating…[Read more]

]]> 0 751ca1b603bf175b9a26987c093010fa Ignatius Tan started the topic The Acoustic Text Symposium: Sound and Music in Literature in the discussion Music https://hcommons.org/groups/music/forum/topic/the-acoustic-text-symposium-sound-and-music-in-literature/ Sun, 26 Sep 2021 09:50:50 -0400 For the past 6 months, our team has been hard at work putting this digital symposium together. Featuring two outstanding keynotes in Professors Steven Connor (University of Cambridge) and Rita Felski (University of Virginia), as well as both critical and creative panelists from academic and artistic circles all round the world, it brings into…[Read more]

]]> 870a7aa3f30983cc2aa0512e9f6c4c2d Larisa Mann deposited Savage intimacy, deviant safety: surveillance technology and club culture in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745954/ Fri, 16 Jul 2021 02:24:11 -0400 Dance music is a medium and social practice that has in some cases functioned as a site of refuge for people and communities whom mainstream society marks "deviant" or "uncivilized. Foundational movements in dance music emerge from particular spaces and times where communities are able to center bodies and practices that subvert or contradict…[Read more]

]]> 0 4819b2a5559202b592770ce1c0b1ea6f Larisa Mann deposited Embodied Meaning in Jamaican Popular Music in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745950/ Fri, 16 Jul 2021 02:23:53 -0400 (First paragraph): "Any DJ could tell you that you don’t know what music really means until you see it in people’s bodies. A DJ establishes a relationship between audio recordings and the crowd, responding to the speed and intensity of their movements, the symbolism of physical attitudes and gestures, their vocalizations, and the simple pre…[Read more]

]]> 0 c269f6ce3adf7de52a128bb132dbc789 Olivia Louvel deposited RESOUNDING THE VOICE. On repurposing the archival material of voice, from analogue to digital. in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741629/ Wed, 16 Jun 2021 02:26:34 -0400 This research investigates the practice of resounding the archival material of voice, when translating the sound object from analogue to digital. The author is focussing on the voice as spoken word, when the archival voice has been temporarily overlooked but preserved. Since technological progress allowed us to record, we have been accumulating…[Read more]

]]> 0 98f09a4ee06786ad774af2fe0c252f0a Ignatius Tan started the topic CFP: The Acoustic Text Symposium in the discussion Music https://hcommons.org/groups/music/forum/topic/cfp-the-acoustic-text-symposium/ Mon, 24 May 2021 07:26:12 -0400 The Acoustic Text Symposium

1-2 October 2021 (Online)

CFP Deadline: 15 July 2021

Hosted By: Nanyang Technological University

Keynote Speakers: Steven Connor, Rita Felski

This symposium brings into critical aggregation the aesthetic concerns
of literature, music, and sound. Where these areas of study frequently intersect to generate novel and…[Read more]

]]> b3ae56a2e8b6b7cc613cec3b9d6a41c7 Jake Johnson deposited Post-Secular Musicals in a Post-Truth World in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1731700/ Wed, 17 Mar 2021 02:24:32 -0400 In this chapter, I make two interconnected observations. I first consider how musicals inhabit and promote a 'post-truth' worldview similar to those reflected in current populist resurgences throughout the West. I argue that it is musical theater's penchant for the unreal that in recent decades has given it traction within both secular,…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ec11764a18fcf99a4e026cdb997ee40 Olivia Louvel deposited 'The Sculptor Speaks': resounding the archival voice of Barbara Hepworth. in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1727630/ Tue, 16 Feb 2021 02:23:38 -0500 The project 'The Sculptor Speaks' takes its source from a 1961 tape by British sculptor Barbara Hepworth. Unearthed at the British Library, the tape’s initial purpose was for a pre-recorded talk with slides for the British Council. Every recording is a priori an archival object, which can potentially resound anew through a contemporary carrier, p…[Read more]

]]> 0 b17a8b7befea62c747120008c5c8044e Laurence Dresner started the topic Joan of Arc Music in the discussion Music https://hcommons.org/groups/music/forum/topic/joan-of-arc-music-3/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 21:07:13 -0500 I’m a classically trained composer considering writing a chamber piece about Joan of Arc.  I’m looking for information regarding (folk) songs she would have probably been familiar with during the early part of her life – before she began her quest.  Any information, links, suggestions, would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks

]]> f633ff54243ceba7cdb8c53fc66ac186 Frank Mento posted an update in the group Music and Sound: Volume 11 of the Online Harpsichord Method is now […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721854/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:03:30 -0500 Volume 11 of the Online Harpsichord Method is now available.

In order to help you prepare for international harpsichord competitions, this supplementary volume contains pieces that have been used in the Jurow, Milan, Bologna, and Budapest International Competitions : works by Byrd, Frescobaldi, attr. Sweelinck, Froberger, Louis Couperin,…[Read more]

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